TFORMer SDK - Barcode Label Printing SDK

Embed printing tasks into your system! The TFORMer Labeling SDK automates printing and exporting of industry compliant forms and labels. Due to various available programming interfaces TFORMer SDK integrates into your application easily.

Integrate Form and Label Printing into Your Application

In order to automate output and printing you use the TFORMer label printing SDK. Embed this report and label generator SDK with a few steps into your systems, procedures, software applications, batch jobs or shell scripts.

Just 4 Steps

By integrating the labeling SDK, the complete output capabilities of TFORMer Designer are available to your application. Only a few function calls are needed to print forms or labels with your data:

Integrate TFORMer SDK into your application

Choose the form or label layout to be printed

Supply the data

Start printing or exporting forms and labels

For Simple as well as Complex Automation Tasks

The form and barcode label printing SDK is ideally suited for seamless integration into software applications or systems. Due to the cross platform availability of TFORMer SDK, you are not bound to Microsoft® Windows. The output generated by TFORMer SDK is identical regardless of the operating system. Linux®, UNIX®, Mac OS X® and Microsoft® Windows are supported. The following application programming interfaces (APIs) are available:

Interface

Availability

Application

Command-Line (TFPrint)

Microsoft® Windows Mac OS X® Linux®, UNIX®

For embedding in batch jobs (*.BAT and *.CMD) and shell scripts (like *.sh for Linux®)

COM Component

Microsoft® Windows

Used for scripting languages like Visual Basic® (*.VBS, VBScript), with VBA in Microsoft® Office applications, for browser applications (HTML + VBScript, HTML + JavaScript), used for server side ASP applications and for traditional software developers.

.NET 2.0 Assembly

Microsoft® Windows, Linux® & Mac OS X®(via MONO)

For .NET developers

DLL or Shared Library

Microsoft® Windows Mac OS X® Linux®, UNIX®

For C/C++ software developer, for PHP developer (server side)

JAVA

Microsoft® WindowsMac OS X®Linux®, UNIX®

API for JAVA developers (J2EE, Webservices, Swing, AWT, ...)

TFORMer Labeling SDK

Windows

We offer the following licenses for TFORMer SDK. Please note that Windows and UNIX/Linux platforms are licensed separately. Contact us for more information - we would be pleased to send you a customized offer.

New Features

Added Meta Information properties to allow customization of document creator, producer, title, subject, author and keywords.
These information is used when generating PDF, PostScript and HTML output. The current values can be accessed by using the system fields tfDocumentCreator, tfDocumentProducer, tfDocumentTitle, tfDocumentSubject, tfDocumentAuthor and tfDocumentKeywords.

The Expression Editor shows calltips based on the current word.

Tooltips in the Expression Editor are now word wrapped.

Added copy and paste support to layer elements (TFM-5002).

Saving a repository form will now save the repository too (TFM-1780).

Saving a repository will save all corresponding open forms too.

Bug Fixes

The output engine now avoids rendering of invisible lines, rectangles and ellipses (either with line-width 0 or with no color and transparent background).

New Templates
KLT (Kleinladungsträger) and GLT (Großladungsträger) labels for ZF.

New SDK Options for Printing Barcodes and Images
The SDK options tbarcode-drawing-mode und transparent-image-drawing-mode can now be used to control certain aspects when printing bar-codes or transparent images on Windows printers.

TFORMer SDK (for Microsoft Windows)
The TFORMer SDK is now correctly unloaded from memory. This fixes a problem where TFPrint.exe was not able to set the ERRORCODE correctly (TFM-6348).